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Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]
Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See [[hcard-date-of-death]]
==Date of baptism==
Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards "bday".


==See also==
==See also==
{{genealogy-related-pages}}
{{genealogy-related-pages}}

Revision as of 10:59, 27 September 2007

Genealogy Brainstorming

Contributors

Building blocks

Since genealogy is about people and their relationships, it is likely that any genealogical microformat will be built from hCard and XFN microformats; with hCalendar used for dates such as marriages and divorces.

Gender

To make life easier for publishers, the following values could all equate, without requiring the use of abbr to:

Male

  • male
  • he
  • man
  • m
  • son
  • father
  • husband
  • brother
  • uncle
  • nephew
  • grandfather/ grand-father / great-grand-father etc.
  • grandson/ grand-son / great-grand-son etc.
  • ...

Female

  • female
  • she
  • woman
  • f
  • fem
  • wife
  • daughter
  • mother
  • sister
  • aunt
  • niece
  • grandmother/ grand-mother / great-grand-mother etc.
  • granddaughter/ grand-daughter / great-grand-daughter etc.
  • ...

Issue

  • What about other languages?
  • Gender reassignment and other edge cases
    • Outside the 80/20 cut-off
    • Could use abbr

Relationships

XFN has family rel values.

Although, from existing publishing practices, it seems likely that primary relationships ("parent", "child", "sibling", "spouse") are more commonly expressed than secondarty relationships ("aunt", "grand-father") when linking from one page to another, additional values may be required (e.g. "uncle"; see above for further examples). These could, of course, be used outside a genealogy microformat, as with other XFN values.

Non-marriage partnerships and short-term liaisons should also be catered for (for the parents of illegitimate children).

In addition to the gender-neutral primary relationships already in XFN, gender-specific terms may be required ("father" and "mother" for "parent", for example). There might also be a need for "step-sibling", "step-mother" and "half-sibling", etc.

Date of death

Inevitably, more of our ancestors are dead than alive.

Since non-genealogical web pages also publish death dates, it is proposed that hCard be extended to incorporate them. See hcard-date-of-death

Date of baptism

Older records, from times when registration of births was not carried out, rely on baptism records, A date-of-baptism property is thus required. This could be added to hCard, or be specific to a genealogy microformat, and should be based on hCards "bday".

See also